Anonymous manuscript, containing notes on reading, theology, heraldry, a Latin poem, a sermon and ""For Free Lending,"" a dialogue, as well as financial figures.
The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
Subject (Geographic):
California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Copied about 1736., Followed by other traditions., and Two traditions related by Abū Ḥanīfah on the authority of Mālik ibn Anas.
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., and With: 10 other titles.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding. and Theology--Tradition--Corpuses
Ibn Mammātī, Asʻad ibn al-Muhadhdhab, 1149-1209 Suyūṭī, 1445-1505
Published / Created:
[1736]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 258
Image Count:
19
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Copied about 1736., Followed by 2 leaves of notes., and Satyrical essay on Bahāʾ al-Dīn Qarāqūsh.
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., With: 10 other titles., and Wrongly ascribed in the title to Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.